From Amorgos (Nikos Gatsos Poems)
IWith their country tied to their sails and their oars hung on the windThe shipwrecked slept tamely like dead beasts on ...
IWith their country tied to their sails and their oars hung on the windThe shipwrecked slept tamely like dead beasts on ...
I HEAR men laud the coming Exhibition, I read its promise in the printed page,And thence I learn that its pacific ...
What a twitter! what a tumult! what a whirr of wheeling wings!Birds of Passage hear the message which the Equinoctial ...
Arise to birth with me, my brother.Give me your hand out of the depthssown by your sorrows.You will not return ...
When Father Ranney left the States,In Canada to try the fates,He settled down in Dereham,Then no dairyman lived near him;He ...
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
A question I would like to ask, To answer it may be a task. But the thought cannot be masked, ...
Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist,A sweeping plunge, a sudden shattering noise,And thou hast dared, with a long ...
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleepI wake to hear outside my window-paneThe uncurbed fury of the wild spring ...
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail ...
The piper coming from far away is you With a whitewash brush for a sporran Wobbling round you, a kitchen ...
(a) radical ban all fires and places where people congregate to create comfort put an end to sleep good cooking ...
How countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist, A sweeping plunge, a sudden shattering noise, And thou hast dared, with ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Out here there are no hearthstones, Hot grains, simply. It is dry, dry. And the air dangerous. Noonday acts queerly ...
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